Friday, 31 May 2013

Authors on the loose

You can see that it really was a wonderful mix of East and West. The guy in the grey suit is Mr Rama, the much-beloved organizer, and Book Supremo of Singapore… BE NICE TO HIM

Above you see the sort of people who judge literary prizes. We somehow managed to clear the Lemon Tree cafe’s entire stocks of salted caramel ice cream (the brain needs MASSES of sugar to make it work properly).

(Left is Naomi Kajima, author of Singing Shijimi Clams, next to her is Anushka Ravishankar of Duckbill, an Indian publishing house, and right is Christopher Cheng, children’s author from Australia.)

The main events took place in this thing called The Pod (above and top of column) which is a sort of spaceship-like thing on top of a skyscraper called The National Library.

On the last night, the judges treated ourselves to drinks on the Singapore river. Middle is Corinne from PaperTigers.org, and right is author Candy Gourlay, who actually took most of these pictures

Above is my friend Nick with some of his fans. Sadly we don’t all get the same level of adoration as he does… can’t think why, other than the fact that he is young, handsome, brilliant, etc…